"This was the genesis of the network of democratic socialists who seven years later were to conceive, organize, and set the themes for the March on Washington."
"Bayard Rustin, the march’s chief organizer, was standing at the Washington Monument, where reporters pressed him about why so few people had shown up. Rustin looked intently at a yellow legal pad in his hand. 'Gentlemen,' he said, 'everything is going exactly according to plan.' One of Rustin’s aides looked over his shoulder and saw that the pad Rustin was looking at was blank."
"There was, though, a dark side to the event, for it triggered an ugly and brutal reaction within one of the most powerful offices of the land."
